Results of our Health and Social Care Bill survey

A huge thank you to all our members in England who took the
time to respond to our survey on the Health and Social Care Bill
over the weekend. 1,890 of you responded (a response rate of 20%)
and you made your views of the current reforms extremely clear.

Some of the headline findings are:

84% believe that the RCPsych should call for the Bill to be
withdrawn

93% were not reassured by
the Government’s response to the recent Listening Exercise

85% believe that the current
reforms will not deliver cost-effective care

78% believe that the current
reforms will not improve relationships between GPs and
psychiatrists.

On the back of this survey, and at this stage of the Bill's
passage, I am urgently calling on the House of Lords to set
up a health select committee to interrogate and debate more fully
the implications of these reforms for our patients